Chapter 11: Search and Rescue

Whisper and Amy had followed the trail Tails set for them hoping to find any sign of Silver or Zero's whereabouts. Soon enough, they stumbled upon what appeared to be a mechanical base of operations.

"Yep. That looks like something Eggman would build."

Whisper looks at Amy's communicator seeing they were at their destination. "I'm going in."

"You're not going in alone."

"I can't lose another friend."

Amy looks down some. "Still miss Tangle too?"

Whisper peeks her ear a bit.

"Don't worry. You're not going to lose anyone else." She holds her hand out to her.

The wolf smiles as she takes Amy's hand and leaps down towards the base.

Dr. Starline was surveying them from within the base. "They're heading in now, master."

"Good. Let them come."

"Are you sure?"

"She'll be the first to go."

Whisper and Amy come to a crossroads within the base. "Two cells?"

Amy reads the ESP signal confused. "Why am I getting two signals?"

"Split up."

"Alright. You go left and I'll go right." Amy then took the right path.

Whisper run through the left path. Once down the path she came across two familiar face. "You again."

Rough and Tumble stood before her towering her.

"Looks like you took a wrong turn, little wolfie."

"Yeah. Think you can take us alone?"

Whisper fires a spike wisp at a steam vent covering the area.

"Get her!"

The two skunk brothers end up swinging and kicking landing blow after blow in the thick of the steam.

Whisper slips out of the steam as it clears up. She looks back at the skunks all beaten and bruised. "Nice work, boys." She ran towards the holding cells.

Rough slaps Tumble angrily. "You idiot."

"Hey, you hurt me too."

On the other end, Amy found her way into the other holding cell breaking down the door with her hammer.

Zero was chained to the wall looking down with his hood covering his face.

"You must be Zero." She walks over pulling his hood off seeing his face gasping. "You're…?"

"I don't expect you to help me. Not after what I've done to you and…him."

Amy then drove her hammer into his restraints freeing him.

Zero lands on his feet looking at her. "Huh?"

"The way I see it, you and I seem to have a common enemy in Eggman right now."

"That is right."

"Enemy of my enemy is my friend, you know."

Zero smiles. "Maybe you could be an ally to Team Guardian."

Amy shrugs a bit. "Let's deal with Eggman first and go from there." She pulls Zero's arm over her shoulder helping him out of the cell.

Whisper found her way to the other holding cells looking for her ivory friend. "Silver?" She soon finds him in the cell at the end and blasts the door down. "Silver." She runs up to him trying to grab him only to pass through him. "What?" She moves her hand through him. "A hologram."

A giant metal door closes down over the cell trapping her inside as a familiar laugh filled the walls.

"Eggman." A portal then opens beneath her dropping her down on top of the base's tower. "Where am I?"

Dr. Starline approaches her applauding. "Congratulations on making it this far, Whisper. However, this is where it ends for you."

The wolf takes aim at the platypus as the familiar sound frequency filled the area driving away her wisp friends. "No."

"Don't worry. I won't be fight you. He will." Starline decends into a trapdoor beneath himself.

Whisper looks behind her seeing a mecha suit ready to battle. "Oh no."